REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Special Criminal Reserse Directorate of Metro Jaya Police revealed the case of a house in the area of Tapos, Cimanggis, Depok City that was used as an online gambling place on Tuesday (23/4) at 21:30 WIB.

“As a result of the Cyber Team's patrol, a house has been found that allegedly used online gambling practices with several operators,” said Deputy Director of Special Criminal Reserse of Metro Jaya Police AKBP Hendri Umar during a press conference in Jakarta, Friday (26/4/2024).

Based on the search results, Hendri explained that police made arrests of four people who were inside the house: EP (40 years old), BY (37), DA (24), and TA (41).

“So we said that the role of the four suspects, brother EP, had the greatest role as the manager of an online gambling account using an account from a private youtube channel in the name of Boss Zaki or @dzakki594, while the other three suspects acted as administrators,” he said.

Then for his mode, Hendri lays out the account doing marketing with a number of gambling games such as slots, dominoes, poker, and so on.

“Then, in the video of the content, the players must first download the application, which is the Higgs Domino and Royal Dream slots through the link that the suspect shared," he said.

After downloading the application, players get virtual chips that are priced at Rp 65 thousand per chip, Hendri also said that the chips can be exchanged and transferred to the player. Meanwhile for apps shared by offenders, Hendri mentioned the app is not in the official app store.

“The application is directly from their making. They make their own. So for a while, there was no involving outside parties. But this is purely from the activities carried out by these four men. By being managed directly from the EP brothers,” he said.

For their deeds, the four perpetrators were ensnared with article 27 paragraph (2) juncto article 45 paragraph (3) of Law Number 1 of 2024 on the second amendment to Law Number 11 of 2008 on ITE and/or article 303 of the Book of Criminal Procedure Law Act, and article 3, article 4, and article 5 of Law Number 8 of 2010 on TPPU (Criminal Offences of Money Laundering).

“For the threat of punishment, we can present a maximum of 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of Rp 10 billion," he said. Hendri explained that in the meantime for the four suspects as mentioned above, they have been detained in Rutan Polda Metro Jaya.

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